After hearing IBM would be handing out termination notices Wednesday, Ottawa online shopping firm Shopify Inc. set up a makeshift hiring booth on the sidewalk along Riverside Drive, just metres from IBM’s front doors, and flagged down passersby to ask if they would be interested in working at the startup. The move was reminiscent of the boom days of the Ottawa technology scene, when such moves were commonplace as companies fought tooth and nail for new talent.

“We are looking to hire 50 people, but we aren’t going to turn away talent,” Harley Finkelstein, chief platform officer at Shopify, told the newspaper. “As long as we get amazing people we will hire them.”

Shopify currently employs more than 200 people in Ottawa. IBM employs over 434,000 worldwide.

IBM Canada Ltd. is a leading provider of advanced information technology products and services. As a technology-based solutions company, IBM is dedicated to helping its customers solve their business problems, pursue new market opportunities and become more productive through the innovative application of e-business and Internet technology. Headquartered in Markham, Ontario, IBM Canada has...
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Shopify is an Ottawa based commerce platform that allows anyone to easily sell online, at their retail location, and everywhere in between. Shopify offers a professional online storefront, a payment solution to accept credit cards, a point of sale system to power retail sales and a card reader to accept payments through a mobile phone.
Shopify currently powers over 165,000 active online stores...
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